somic

The lock-in I believe @randybias is referring to (and I personally
totally agree with him on this) is more subtle.

There most likely are not going to be significant issues moving a system
consisting of 1 or 2 instances.

But imagine you have a 10-instance topology in GoGrid. GG has 2 NICs, but even
more importantly - one NIC is private network (which gives
you access to your storage), the second NIC is public (instance's public

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<InstantiateVAppTemplateParams name="d" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v0.8" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<VAppTemplate href="https://services.vcloudexpress.terremark.com/api/v0.8/vAppTemplate/000" />
<InstantiationParams>
<VirtualHardwareSection xmlns:q1="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v0.8">
<Item xmlns="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1">
<InstanceID xmlns="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData">1</InstanceID>
<ResourceType xmlns="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData">3</ResourceType>
<VirtualQuantity xmlns="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData">1</VirtualQuantity>
</Item>
<Item xmlns="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1">

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#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# udp_hole_punch_tester.py - UDP Hole Punching test tool
#
# Usage: udp_hole_punch_tester.py remote_host remote_port
#
# Run this script simultaneously on 2 hosts to test if they can punch
# a UDP hole to each other.
#
# * remote_port should be identical on 2 hosts.

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#!/bin/bash
#
# Prints out how many seconds ago this EC2 instance was started
#
# It uses Last-Modified header returned by EC2 metadata web service, which as far
# as I know is not documented, and hence I assume there is no guarantee
# that Last-Modified will be always set correctly.
#
# Use at your own risk.
#

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#!/usr/bin/env python

# requires py_interface
# http://www.lysator.liu.se/~tab/erlang/py_interface/

import sys, os, time

from py_interface import erl_node, erl_eventhandler
from py_interface.erl_opts import ErlNodeOpts
from py_interface.erl_term import ErlAtom, ErlBinary

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require 'ip'

IP::Address::IPv4.class_eval do

  # returns next IP address
  def next(step=1)
    IP::Address::Util.unpack(self.pack + step)
  end

  # returns previous IP address

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# forking supervisor - forks workers and replaces dead workers.
# start it in one console, send signals to it from another console.
#

require 'rubygems'
require 'daemons/daemonize'